The SeaWolves are pleased to announce that Athletic Trainer T.J. Saunders has been named the Eastern League Trainer of the Year by the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS).
“It’s a great honor to receive the Athletic Trainer of the Year award,” Saunders said. “There are great athletic trainers at every team in this league and to have them choose me as Athletic Trainer of the Year is very humbling. I am very proud and thankful of this honor my peers have bestowed upon me.”
Saunders is in his seventh season as an athletic trainer in the Tigers organization and his second with the SeaWolves. The Annapolis, MD native graduated from Florida State University in 2001 with a bachelor of science in sports medicine, with an emphasis in athletic training. In 2009, he graduated with a master’s degree in exercise physiology from the University of Tennessee.
Saunders is the second SeaWolves Athletic Trainer to win the award in recent years. Chris McDonald, who currently serves as the Athletic Trainer of the Toledo Mud Hens, won the award in Erie in 2012.
The awards are given annually to one member of each of the 16 leagues in Minor League Baseball. All 16 league winners, the Dominican Summer League winner and the Minor League Coordinator of the Year will now be eligible for the prestigious Minor League Athletic Trainer of the Year award voted upon by the full membership of PBATS. That award will be presented at the 2015 Major League Baseball Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tenn
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